Watergate records that the U.S. Congress legislated to be closed for 50 years at the conclusion of the House Judiciary Committee Watergate Inquiry in 1974 are now open for review at @muddlibrary, with two-thirds of the records digitally available: online. specialcollections.princeton…
Last week, we celebrated Baker’s work at our reception for “Powering Up the U.S. Labor Force,” curated by Charissa Jefferson, Labor Economics Librarian. The exhibition is showing now through June in the in the Louis A. Simpson International Building @PrincetonEcon
ALT Opening reception of "Powering Up the U.S. Labor Force" in the Industrial Relations Section of the Louis A. Simpson Building.
ALT Charissa Jefferson with the portrait of J. Douglass Brown.
ALT Charissa Jefferson shows viewers some of Helen Baker's work in the exhibition.
ALT Visitors view the Powering Up the U.S. Labor Force Exhibition
On exhibit now in partnership with @PULibrary, "Powering Up the US Labor Force" provides an immersive look at the impact of Helen Baker, the first Industrial Relations Section librarian and first female associate professor at @Princeton.
Learn more: bit.ly/4as8I2N
ALT The "Powering up the US labor force" exhibit in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton.
Looking for something to do over winter break? Tell us about your collection! One undergraduate and one graduate winner will take a $4,000 grand prize: libguides.princeton.edu/adle…
ALT Shelves and shelves of Monkey King stories or editions and adaptations of Journey to the West in the Cotsen Children’s Library.
"The House of Condulmer" tells a not-so-uncommon tale of a family that experienced mixed fortunes while striving for status and wealth: library.princeton.edu/about/…
Do you collect books, zines, maps, menus, or other book-ish materials? The Elmer Adler Book Collecting Prize awards $4,000 to the winner of each division for their collections: libguides.princeton.edu/adle…
ALT Evan DeTurk ’23, Emma Sarconi, Reference Professional for Special Collections, Alexandra Orbuch ’25.
Do you collect books, zines, maps, menus, or other book-ish materials? The Elmer Adler Book Collecting Prize awards $4,000 to the winner of each division for their collections: libguides.princeton.edu/adle…
ALT Evan DeTurk ’23, Emma Sarconi, Reference Professional for Special Collections, Alexandra Orbuch ’25.
Wouter Haverals' Intro to Digital Humanities class received a crash course on bringing their data to life at the PUL Makerspace. @PrincetonCDH
Among the tools: 3D scanners/printers, video production and VR rooms, poster printers and so much more: library.princeton.edu/servic…
ALT A 3D Scan of a student in Wouter Haverals "Introduction to Digital Humanities" Class, which visited the Makerspace
ALT Ariel Ackerly scans a student in the Makerspace while the rest of the class watches
ALT A Makerspace visitor inspects a 3D printed project
ALT A student smiles while talking to Wouter Haverals in the Makerspace
When you are ready to get cracking on those final projects and assignments, the Viz Hub in the Stokes Library is equipped with the gear, software, and experts to help you with quantitative or qualitative analysis, as well as data visualizations: libguides.princeton.edu/c.ph…
ALT Ameet Doshi teaches a class in the Vizualization Hub at Stokes Library.
Sara Howard, Librarian for Gender & Sexuality Studies and Student Engagement co-edited a two-volume book set on queerness in library and archival practice and theory and it’s available now!
library.princeton.edu/about/…
We’re working on a gallery tour video for our show, “Monsters & Machines” which is currently showing in the Milberg Gallery. Until then, we also have the accompanying digital exhibit, featuring high-quality scans and visitor comments to the curators: dpul.princeton.edu/monsters_…
With the support of the Princeton Histories Fund, researchers from PUL and the @imaprinceton will have their findings about Belle da Costa Greene's life and work will be featured in a mini-exhibition later this month:
ima.princeton.edu/2024/09/23…
ALT Clarence H. White (American, 1871–1925) portrait of Belle da Costa Greene, 1911. Platinum print. Princeton University Art Museum, x1983-447
Make sure your voice is heard in the election!
Once you’ve voted, stop by Special Collections to see a playable replica of Pank-A-Squith. This game, created in the early 1900s by the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), was sold to raise funds for the WSPU.
ALT Three people play the Pank-A-Squith board game in Firestone Special Collections
🤗 🤝 💗 We shared, we cared, we fared (well) at the 2nd Community Care Day! The ADI community & Grad School staff took full advantage of the food, music, swag & activities available to center fun & wellbeing across @Princeton. May the care continue to extend year-round… 🍂 🏛️
ALT Various grad students, including GSG president Amari Tankard, strike a pose on Cannon Green.
ALT Pumpkins, mums, hay bales, and Community Care Day signage adorn the big screen showing of "Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin."
ALT Students, including GSG DEI Chair Caridad Estrada Cardona, enjoy food trucks and bean bags in front of Clio Hall.
ALT Community members celebrate before a well-lit Clio Hall.
Some quick thoughts about our current exhibition, "Monsters and Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century Bestiary," which is now showing in the Milberg Gallery! library.princeton.edu/visit/…
Today Librarian Matthew Kopel is hosting the first of our #OAWeek workshops, “Understanding Open Access at Princeton,” covering the state of OA, trends across academia and in the current publishing landscape, and what this means for Princeton researchers. libcal.princeton.edu/event/1…
ALT October 21-27 International Open Access Week.
Open Access Week 2024 #OAWeek
It's #OAWeek! Open Access and Intellectual Property Librarian Matthew Kopel is hosting a variety of sessions on OA, funding, and Creative Commons: libcal.princeton.edu/calenda…
ALT October 21-27 International Open Access Week.
Open Access Week 2024 #OAWeek
Looking forward to hosting University Archivist Daniel Linke as well as Helen von Rossum tomorrow night (10/17) to explore Princeton U. Trivia.
The event starts at 6 pm and includes a chance for audience members to test their knowledge.
Details: princetonlibrary.libnet.info…
Stop by the Lewis Library Treehouse today (10/14) at 11:30 a.m. for a Europa Clipper watch party! Europa Clipper will reach Jupiter in April 2030 to investigate whether Jupiter's icy moon Europa has habitable conditions.
ALT NASA Promotiona poster for the Europa Clipper Launch. The poster text reads Journey to an Ocean World.
Lecturer @chesneysnow brought his class, Voice Acting and Vocal Foley Design, to PUL to hunt for some inspiration. His students are learning about techniques used in media, which they’ll then use to reimagine public domain pieces through their sonic creations.
ALT Four students view public domain items in Special Collections Firestone
ALT A student pages through a book in special collections Firestone
ALT Two students listen to Chesney Snow and Librarian Jenn Garcon discuss public domain items at Princeton University Library's Special Collections Firestone.
ALT Librarian Emma Sarconi talks to students about items in special collections Firestone.
Our Crafternoons series of workshops is a chance for you to kick back, relax, and make something! Last time we designed and 3D printed earrings at the PUL Makerspace. This week, we're stitching an embroidery sampler: libcal.princeton.edu/event/1…
ALT Two students design earrings on paper at the PUL Makerspace
ALT A person using a 3Doodler pen to create green plastic designs on a graph paper.
ALT A single, 3D-Printed orange star-shaped earring lying on a wooden surface.
Can’t find what you need on the shelves? With BorrowDirect, you can request items from one of 12 partner libraries for pick up right at Firestone Library (usually within a week)! library.princeton.edu/servic…
ALT Princeton University Library user studies on the A floor of Firestone Library.
Students in Mariana Bono’s course “The Making a Language: Spanish Then and Now” visited Special Collections to trace the development of the language, from its beginnings in the Iberian Peninsula to its multiple contemporary manifestations and global reach.
ALT Two students look at books in the Large Classroom in Special Collections Firestone
ALT Mariana Bono and Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez page through a book with a student in Special Collections Firestone.
ALT Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez and a student look at an item in Special Collections Firestone.
Be sure to register! Nishikawa and Garcon make a wonderful and knowledgeable team! Over the summer they collaborated on "Why Black Bibliography Matters" for @rarebookschool
ALT Jenn Garcon gestures to the left while instructing the Black Bibliography class at Rare Book School in 2023,
ALT Kinihi Nishikawa speaking to two students during the Black bibliography class at Rare Book School.
On Tuesday, Jennifer Garcon and I will present James Baldwin first editions, books from his personal library, and other archived materials as part of @PrincetonHum's commemoration of the James Baldwin centennial. Join us 👉 baldwincircles.humanities.pr…
Now showing in the Milberg Gallery, "Monsters & Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century Bestiary" examines the global use of bestiary in visual satire from the beginning of World War I through the end of the Cold War: dpul.princeton.edu/monsters_…
ALT A visitor looks at a piece of art in the Milberg Gallery from the Monsters And Machines Exhibition.
ALT four visitors in the Milberg Gallery look at the Titans and Tyrants section of the Monsters & Machines exhibition.
ALT four people view the "Reptilian Deceiver" section of the Milberg Gallery exhibition, "Monsters & Machines"
ALT Alain St. Pierre, Deborah Schlein, and Thomas St. Pierre stand in front of the Monsters and Machines intro wall at the Milberg Gallery.
In collaboration with @PrincetonPL, we started a book club! We read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender is the Night” and looked at some of our holdings, including Zelda Fitzgerald’s Austrian Jacket, Correspondence between Scott and Zelda, and manuscript drafts: specialcollections.princeton…
ALT A green Austrian Jacket that belonged to Zelda Fitzgerald.
ALT F. Scott, Zelda, and daughter “Scottie,” Paris, France, 1923. F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers (C0187), Box 52, Folder 1.
What has the LGBTQ+ community looked like throughout @princeton history? On 9/19, as part of the #EveryVoice2024 conference, April C. Armstrong from @muddlibrary will take participants through the archival material related to LGBTQ+ Princetonians: everyvoice.princeton.edu/con…
ALT April C. Armstrong works with a Wintersession attendee during the "Peek into the Closet" session at Mudd Library.
Welcome #Princeton2028, and welcome back! Whether you’re visiting the Library for one of our exhibitions or talks, or are just cracking open a book or grabbing a snack at the Tiger Tea Room, we’re glad you’re here!
ALT A student laughs while making a seashell necklace
ALT Two students seated at a table make crafts in the Cotsen Children's Library.
ALT An engineering student shows his final project to a group of students from the St. Paul School.
You'll get to see the finished exhibition, but what does it take to create the shows in the Milberg Gallery? Our exhibition staff gave an inside look at the making of our latest show, "Monsters & Machines," which opens on September 12. library.princeton.edu/visit/…
With the help of some Ethafoam, ⅛” Volara foam, cotton batting, corrugated board, and twill ties, Conservation Technician Martyna Gryko devised a custom housing for an 1846 globe: library.princeton.edu/about/…#SpecialCollections
ALT Martyna Gryko shows the Vale globe in its new housing.
ALT The small-scale prototype of the new housing is in the foreground while the globe and completed housing (featuring a slide-out bed) is in the background.
ALT Looking down at the globe in the custom-built enclosure.
We're previewing our new website! Launching officially on Aug. 12, this site will have an improved All-Search, updated navigation, and better integration with the Special Collections site: library.princeton.edu/news/g…
ALT The homepage of the updated Princeton University Library website. This updated site features a prominent All-Search, new navigation, and better integration with Special Collections.
Author and illustrator Laura Ann Trimble Elbogen ‘07 brought out quite the crowd to hear her story about Latte the Dalmatian at Cotsen Children’s Library! Visitors boogied to her story and made box dogs after her lively reading: popgoesthepage.princeton.edu…
ALT Laura Anne Trimble Elbogen in Cotsen Children's Library.
A new exhibit of the work of formerly unsung artist and photographer Elizabeth Menzies is now on display at @MuddLibrary.
Excluded from education at @Princeton, Menzies’ admission came through her camera, which documented many facets of campus life: library.princeton.edu/elizab…
ALT Black and white image of Palmer Memorial Stadium from a parking lot lined with cars
Not sure where to host your data or code? Princeton Data Commons is a multidisciplinary open digital repository available to ALL researchers in the Princeton Community.
Submissions are open: datacommons.princeton.edu/di…
“The prospect of integrating technology solutions to enhance library services and operations is truly exciting to me.”
Meet Denzil Phillips, our newest Library IT Operations Fellow from @NCCU! library.princeton.edu/news/g…
Campers in the Romus Broadway Photography Camp stopped by Special Collections to see Broadway's photo collages, which document Princeton’s Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood.
Among the many findings during the visit – time moves forward, but fashion is cyclical!
ALT Molly Dotson and Jenn Garcon chat with a camper in Special Collections Firestone
ALT One of Romus Broadway's photo collages
ALT Two campers look at one of Romus Broadway's photo collages in Special Collections Firestone.
ALT A camper uses a magnifying glass to inspect a Romus Broadway photo collage
Inspired by the way scientists photograph the moon and developed by @FactumArte, the Selene Photometric Stereo System is helping us create molds from item scans, illustrate the materiality of prints, and compare ruined plates from the 1600s: library.princeton.edu/news/g…
"The ways that folks search for information are closely tied to our identities and the communities we come from, and I hope to make information-seeking enjoyable and discoverable for all users."
Briona Johnson is our newest fellow from @NCCU: library.princeton.edu/news/g…
Scenes from the Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium earlier this #PrideMonth, where attendees engaged in convos around gender, sexuality, and the body, with consideration for libraries and cultural institutions. The keynote was delivered by @brionasimone!
ALT Briona Simone Jones
ALT The Planning committee for the GSISC.
ALT Attendees to the GSIC gather in McDonnell Hall.
Scenes from a busy first day of the REACH program!
Yesterday the group was in conversation with Toni Morrison's "The Black Book." Students and mentors examined items from our collections and chose which they would add to Morrison's compilation on the Black experience in America.
ALT Two students examine photographs in Special Collections Firestone
ALT Toni Morrison's The Black Book
ALT Students and mentors examine images and items in Special Collections Firestone
During reunions, we had the pleasure of hosting Our Kids Read during their visit to Princeton, which included a stop by Cotsen and to see Special Collections items, like an authentic copy of the Declaration of Independence: vimeo.com/953236805
Our Digital Imaging Studio is helping researchers look beyond the surfaces of PUL Collections using a piece of technology inspired by the way scientists capture images of the moon.
Oh, and we're using a system of which there are only three in the world:
library.princeton.edu/news/g…
ALT The underside of the SPSS.
ALT Left - The obverse of a bronze follis depicting Justinian I. Right - A mold of the same coin created from SPSS imaging.
ALT Roel Muñoz adjusts the lens of the SPSS, during a training for the Digital Scholarship team.
Tomorrow is the last day to see "Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond" in the Milberg Gallery.
It explores Carrión’s pioneering reinvention of the book as a material and social platform, primarily featuring Princeton’s extensive holdings: library.princeton.edu/ulises…
ALT Intro wall and first section of the Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond exhibition in the Milberg gallery.
Visitors to the Princeton University Pride Fest had some great recommendations for their favorite authors, books, and films: library.princeton.edu/news/g…
ALT Visitors to the 2023 Pride Fest spin Princeton University Library's prize wheel.
Four sets of PUL staffers received grants from the @Princeton Humanities Council to support projects ranging from investigating #AI in cataloging to hosting scholarly workshops on prison labor, creating a geologic walk series and even making a zine cart: library.princeton.edu/news/g…
ALT Molly Dotson, Ariel Ackerly, and three students sit around a table at the PUL Makerspace working zines.
Congratulations to Alan Stahl, Curator of Numismatics, for joining the advisory panel of the Trustees of the Highlands College! In this role, Stahl will work to allocate the £250,000 Le Câtillon II Coin Hoard Fund.
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ALT John Le Fondré, Chief Minister of Jersey (left) and Alan Stahl, Curator of Numismatics.
We were honored to host author and recent @Princeton graduate Uma Menon '24! Uma brought her gorgeous picture book, "My Mother’s Tongues: A Weaving of Languages." In the book, Uma describes the dynamic of her family and the multiple languages they speak.popgoesthepage.princeton.edu…
ALT Uma Menon with her book, "My Mother’s Tongues: A Weaving of Languages"